New light on the Sheridan recordings
The “My Bonnie” LP by Tony Sheridan only contains two songs backed by The Beatles. 55 years ago – the Beatles recorded “My Bonnie” and 6 other songs in Hamburg in the famous sessions...
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McCartney regaining rights to some northern songs
A book about Northern Songs Paul McCartney is in the process of reclaiming US publishing rights for a huge chunk of The Beatles’ catalogue from Sony/ATV. The U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 stipulates that...
Lybro Jeans photo shoot
In 1963, a Liverpool jeans company, Lybro Limited, asked if The Beatles would advertise their jeans. The request may either have come through the group’s manager, Brian Epstein – or through their friend at...
The Beatles and “the Cliff Richard law”
A single from Kutmusic It’s been dubbed by the media as “Cliff Richard’s Law”, the change to copyright duration in sound recordings. From 1 November 2013, The Copyright and Duration of Rights in Performances...
More bootleg recordings 1963
What with the success of the Beatles’ bootleg recordings 1963 (iTunes charts show it at #4 in the USA, #16 in the UK and #24 in Norway, without the release even having been mentioned...
Bootlegs Back again
Photo: Apple Corps Ltd. Lo and behold, it’s now up again at iTunes and for the first time also in the US. But rather more expensive than the initial New Zealand release, which translated...
On Air: Best Buy edition
On Air: Best Buy edition with 5 “art cards”. Here we go again. There’s a “Best Buy” edition of On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 that comes with “5 art cards...
Promoting 090909
As we’re approaching 090909, the Beatles promotion machine is picking up speed. But when you are The Beatles, you also get a lot of free publicity any upcoming band would have killed for. Just...
Allen Klein dies at 77
Notorious financial acrobat and lawyer Allen Klein died Saturday at 77 from Alzheimer’s disease. Klein was one of the factors in the break up of The Beatles, when John, George and Ringo hired him...
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